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Brief Lives, Vol. 2

Chapter 281: Notes.
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A collection of concise biographical sketches of contemporaries and earlier figures recorded by an antiquarian observer, combining factual entries—births, offices, publications, and inscriptions—with personal anecdotes, hearsay, heraldic and parish-register notes, bibliographic references, and occasional critical judgments. Entries range from terse records to extended reminiscences, often citing documentary sources or witness statements, and reflect an informal, detail-driven approach aimed at preserving lives, reputations, and local traditions for reference and remembrance.


Clement Walker (1595-1651).

[1143]Clement Walker, esq. ('Theodorus Verax'), author of the History of Independency, was of Christ Church, Oxon. Obiit ..., in the Tower (about Worcester fight).

[1144]Clement Walker[CE], esq.—vide registrum at All Hallows, Barking, about 1650, ubi sepultus, November:—he asked about an hower before he dyed, how long it was to full-sea. They sayd, an hower. 'Then,' sayd he, 'at that time I shall depart'; and he did so, quietly—from E. P—.,, esq., his fellow-prisoner there, who told me that he wrote a continuation of his Historic of the king's comeing to Worcester: 'tis pitty 'tis lost.

His son[CF], W. W., now living, was a minor when his father dyed; and ..., an elder brother of his, was made executor, who is also dead.

Notes.

[CE] Aubrey adds also the references:—(a) 'vide A<nthony> W<ood's> lettre, about June 1681'; (b) 'vide Φ, p. 88,' a MS. I have been unable to identify.

[CF] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 360: July 14, 1681:—'Mr. Clement Walker's son tells me that his father was buried in Allhallowes Barking church, November ..., 1652: wherabout he knowes not, being then but 9 aetatis.'